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I have a Mac Mini 2006 (upgraded) with Intel GMA950 graphics, running MLPostFactor 10.8.5. It is connected to an ASUS VS197 LCD panel using DVI-D. This is natively a 1366x768 panel that is recognized and works fine.

However, the other choices for resolution are 4:3 800x600 and 1024x768, and then the oddballs 832x624 and 1360x768. None of these are useful as a low-resolution widescreen for gaming or watching DVD content. Specifically I want to get access to 848x480 or 854x480, and also 1024x576. SwitchResX makes these choices available, but it doesn't work with a "full screen" game, presumably because the game directly queries OSX Display to get a list of valid resolutions and SwitchResX is bypassing that system instead.

So the solution is obvious: buy a new computer pull the monitor's EDID data, hack it to enable new resolutions, and then tell OSX to use this custom EDID instead of the one retrieved from the monitor.

Now the problems begin. Even though the plist file is being read (which I know because the Monitor Name has changed in Displays), the custom EDID is not being used. When I dig into IORegExplorer I am able to come up with AAPL00,EDID string and it is the unmodified one read from the monitor. I even tried a plug-and-unplug while OSX is running, and also tried to reset the SMC and NVRAM, but no dice.

Do I need to start digging into DSDT hacking? Is the Intel driver pulling down EDID during boot and I need to override it somewhere else? What am I missing here?

I've been attempting for the past few days to install OS X Mountain Lion on my Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E530 with little success. So much so that I've finally decided I'm probably out of ideas and created this forum post requesting help.

So far , I've attempted to install iAtkos ML2 and ML3U via USB and so far both have worked up until the first sighting of the apple logo then the laptop restarted. In both cases , I was using a separate USB with chameleon bootloader on but in the instance where I tried to use the onboard bootloader on ML3U , I hit enter and the screen simply remained black.

Hey all,
I built my first Hackintosh back in 2012 and its been runner amazing. Thank you again for the awesome guides and forums that made it all possible. I have however hit the end of this builds software limits. I am still running 10.8.2 mountain lion on the machine. I would like to update to Sierra and want to make sure I am clear on the procedures. Now that it seems like everything is could based and no longer get physical versions of OS.
currently i am backing up the system using and external drive and "carbon copy cloner" as shown here: http://www.macbreaker.com/2012/06/backup-your-hackintosh-with-carbon-copy.html

My question is should i follow the set via the App store updates, Wipe the system and start over or is there a better way to achieve running Sierra on my machine?

While most of the VMWare guest hardware is virtualized, the guest VM CPU reflects the same CPU features the physical host CPU has.This guide details the additional work that is needed to run OS X 10.8-10.12 with an AMD CPU under VMWare.

If your AMD CPU supports SSE3 and SSSE3 (and SSE4.1 for OS X 10.12):
The installation should be pretty simple:1. Install VMWare Workstation 8.0.6 / 9.0.4 / 10.0.4 / Player 6.0.4.2. Run VMWare Unlocker 1.3.0.3. Prepare an installation ISO from the untouched 10.8 (Mountain Lion) DMG using dmg2img.4. Create a new VM (select "Mac OS X 10.8" as the guest operating system).5. Set your 'number of cores per processor' to 1 (the number of processors can be set to more than one).6. A. For OS X 10.8-10.11:
Open the .vmx file of the virtual machine and add the following lines:
cpuid.0.eax="0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:1011"
cpuid.0.ebx="0111:0101:0110:1110:0110:0101:0100:0111"
cpuid.0.ecx="0110:1100:0110:0101:0111:0100:0110:1110"
cpuid.0.edx="0100:1001:0110:0101:0110:1110:0110:1001"
cpuid.1.eax="0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0110:1111:0001"
cpuid.1.ebx="0000:0010:0000:0001:0000:1000:0000:0000"
cpuid.1.ecx="1000:0010:1001:1000:0010:0010:0000:0011"
cpuid.1.edx="0000:1111:1010:1011:1111:1011:1111:1111"
(this will identify the guest CPU as an Intel Core 2 Merom, and will help you avoid the 'The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.' error)

7. If your Hardware compatibibility is set to Workstation 9.0 (virtualHW.version = "9") or 10, you must also add the following line:featureCompat.enable = "FALSE"

8. You can now boot from the ISO and proceed with the installation.

9. Even though I could complete the installation without a hitch with my A8-5600K, a few applications consistently crashed (e.g. Grapher), this was resolved by replacing the kernel with a modified kernel that emulates all missing SSE3 / SSSE3 instructions (see below).

If your AMD CPU does not support SSSE3:
You need to replace the kernel with one that has SSSE3 emulation (see below),the easiest way to do it is to use another computer that has SSSE3 to create the virtual disk and replace the kernel.
1. After you have a working OS X machine, update to 10.8.5, make a copy of the virtual disk and attach it to the same VM.

2. Change the os settings to show hidden files (see here), and delete the hidden 'mach_kernel' from the root folder of the attached disk.(alternatively, use the terminal to perform this, e.g. 'sudo chflags nohidden mach_kernel' or 'sudo rm mach_kernel')

3. Put the modified kernel (see below) instead of the one you just deleted (use the same file name).

4. Delete the old kernel cache by deleting the content of the '/System/Library/Caches/com.apple.kext.caches/' directory.

Modified Kernel:For your convenience, I have created a modified 10.8.5 kernel (a.k.a. xnu-2050.48.11) specifically to be used with VMWare, and attached it to this post.The only modification to this kernel is that it includes OpEmu3, the SSE3 and SSSE3 emulator created by Sinetek and AnV (thanks guys!).This emulator is only used when necessary (i.e. if your CPU support a specific instruction, the emulator will not be used to execute it).
The source code to OpEmu3 is available here and my adaptaion to 10.8.5 is available here.
10.8.5-OpEmu3.zip

A minor update of this topic - Clover (r3561) patch on the fly works fine with macOS 10.12 Sierra.

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Update - 08.18.2015
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ok

with Download-Fritz help, I’m finally able to patch my kexts with new method.

it works fine with Clover r3259 + DB6

but in my case, I still have to use FakeSMC trick... I tried with ForceKextsToLoad feature but it didn’t work... not yet.

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Update - 08.17.2015
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Hi there!

almost a year later, I'm about to update this topic, not because I was too lazy to do it but just because the "patch on the fly" method has a little bit changed since Clover r3154 and which I was not able to make work.

not really happy with being unable to use this method, I decided to do some tests with older versions of OS X and Clover... Bla bla bla... bla bla Bla...

... as I expected, the old method still work... and it works fine with ElCapitan DB1

I even was able to install ElCapitan with Clover r2850 and boot well on it
but to have success with it, the most effective trick for now is to inject the details of my kexts (AMD5000Controller.kext and AMDRadeonX3000.kext) inside the FakeSMC Info.plist as additional IOKitPersonalities. With this trick, my kexts are always loaded.
with the standard loading method, the patch doesn't work

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Update - 03.28.2014
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just to tell that since Mavericks, we need no more those 3 kexts, only 2 of them (AMD5000Controller.kext and AMDRadeonX3000.kext) to enable QE_CI for HD6770 cards

even if you use those 3 kexts, AMD6000Controller.kext will not be loaded

to do this with chameleon, use GraphicsEnabler=Yes and edit 0x68B81002 -> 068BA1002 in both kexts

if you want to do this with clover, use clover configurator and KernelAndKextPatches tweak:

don't forget to put 'Inject Kexts' to 'Yes'

if it does not work, it is because the kexts are not presents in kernel cache.

The most effective trick for now is to inject the details of your kexts inside the FakeSMC Info.plist as additional IOKitPersonalities. With this trick, your kexts will be always loaded.

I did it with QE_CI Exotic patch for HD48xx series cards with my old HD4830 and it works!

see here for more details: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/296949-tuto-qe-ci-exotic-patch-via-clover/

p.s:

here, more screens

Method 3: if you're using Clover, you can make this card work with a Fake ID injection
<key>Devices</key>
<dict>
<key>FakeID</key>
<dict>
<key>ATI</key>
<string>0x68B81002</string>
</dict>
</dict>

Method 2: since OS X 10.8, you no longer have to edit those kexts, just inject your ID via dsdt: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/282687-radeon-hd-6770-full-qeci-mountain-lion/?p=1902721 (credits go to RampageDev)

*This method also works very well with OS X Mavericks
Method 1: i can confirm it, with the last Chameleon-2.1svn-r2054.pkg, it work well on 10.8.2 Build 12C43 !!!

No more need to flashing HD 6770 into HD 5770 to have QE/CI !!!

So just add your ID (0x68BA1002) into ATI5000Controller.kext and AMDRadeonAccelerator.kext

Hey, I'm not dead, I've moved over to using the nickname "Mr. Xtreme", and mostly use Linux distros/Windows 10, though it seems I'm gonna have to hackintosh again, so, hey everyone who remembers me! :wave: